I encourage people to nominate songs that are freely available. I strongly encourage you all to have at least one freely-available song in your requests. The more, the better. However, so far, there hasn't been an issue where requesting a large number of pay-only songs has sent a person to pinch hit and they haven't been picked up.
If that were the case, I hope people would understand I might ask someone in that situation to expand their requests - which is always a tool in a moderator's toolbox, just not a very popular or frequently-used one.
On nominating songs that aren't free to listen/watch
I encourage people to nominate songs that are freely available. I strongly encourage you all to have at least one freely-available song in your requests. The more, the better. However, so far, there hasn't been an issue where requesting a large number of pay-only songs has sent a person to pinch hit and they haven't been picked up.
If that were the case, I hope people would understand I might ask someone in that situation to expand their requests - which is always a tool in a moderator's toolbox, just not a very popular or frequently-used one.